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W. G. DUGKETT. LABEL HOLDER.

No. 517,545. Patented Apr. 3, 1894.

Ti gIL- Nrrnn STATES PATENT Fries.

WALTER annokn'r'r, or WASHINGTON, DISTRICT or COLUMBIA.

LABEL-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,545, dated April 3,1894.

/ Application filed June 20, 1898.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER G. DUCKETT, a citizen of the United States.residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented.certain new. and useful Improvements in Card, Sign, or Label Racks; andI do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain new. and useful improvements in thatclass of devices known as card, sign or label racks.

The object of this invention is to provide a rack that shall be capableof ready attachment at conspicuous points about a sales room, or office,also to small articles of stock, such as boxes, bottles or the like. Afurther object is to employ a novel and improved construction that shallpossess ad- Vantagesin point of simplicity, durability, inexpensivenessand general efficiency.

An important feature of the invention resides in the provision of a rearsupport or backing in combination with the ordinary form of cardclamping coil, by which the card shall be effectually protected againstbending, breaking and detachment from the rack.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises Variousnovel details, combinations and arrangements of elements which will behereinafter more fully set forth and specifically pointed out in theclaims.

In describing the invention in detail, reference is had to theaccompanying drawings forming part of this specification wherein likeletters indicate corresponding parts in the several views, in whichFigure 1: is a view in elevation of one form of rack constructed andarranged to embody my improvements. Figs. 2 and 3 are similar viewsshowing racks provided with duplicate card clamping coils and shanks anda bridge-piece connecting the coils. ,Fig. 4.:- is a view in elevationshowing a rack provided with triple coils and double shanks. Fig. 5:=-is a view in elevation of a slightly modified form of coil. Figs. 6 and6 are viewsin-elevation and section of a slightly modified form ofclamping coil. Figs. 7 and 8: are views showing the improved form ofSerial No. 478.246. (No model.)

clamping coil applied in duplicate to racks such as are shown in Figs. 2and 3. Figs. 9, 10 and 11, are views in perspective illustrating a Wellknown form of clampingcoil in connection with a card.

In the drawings .A Fig. 1, denotes the card rack,whichis preferablyformed from a single length of spring wire and-consists essentially ofthe card clamping coil B the rear supportor backing O and the tapered orpointed shank --D. This backing projects above the coil, and is sorelatively arranged therewith as to form a slightly yielding yetpractically rigid support for the card, sign or label and thus serves tobrace the same against bending, breaking, (to. With racks of this class,as heretofore constructed, it has been customary in forming the clampingcoil to employ double circular turns of wire (see Figs. 9, 10 and 11)having the same diameter and lying normally in close engagement, theclamping action resulting from the disengagement of or forcing apartthese coils by the interposition of a card, sign or label. This form ofcoil grips but a comparatively small marginal portion of the card andwith no other support, readily admits of the card being bent over andbroken or detached by accidental blows or the crowding together ofarticles of stock to which the racks are attached.

With myimproved support or backing this objection is entirely obviatedas will be at once apparent.

Referring to Figs. 2 and 3, a rack is shown, in which duplicate coils-B-B are employed and connected by the arched support or backing O'-*with the extremities of the coils bent downward and pointed to form adouble shank D The capacity of these racks last mentioned may, ifdesired, be readily increased by adding a third coil ---B which isformed centrally of the arched support or backing, as shown in Fig. 4..I

In Figs. 5, 5, 6, and 6, I have illustrated an improved card clampingcoil, which consistsin bending a single length of spring wire into afiat spiral coil -B with the outer or largest turn +6- thereof extendedto an approximate elliptical form (see Fig. 5) and serving as a backingor support for the card, sign or label. The inner extremity of this wirewhich forms the beginning of the coil, may be lengthened and bentupwardly against the coil to form a spring clamping finger -Z1 withportions thereof indented and forced between the circular turns of thecoil as is clearly shown in Fig. 6.

In Figs. '7 and S, racks are shown provided with these flat spiral coilsand having the spring fingers connected by an arch-shaped bridge piece 0which is integral therewith. The extremities of the rack wire being bentdownwardly, as in Fig. 2.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A card rack, comprising multiple coils of wire, one of which is oflarger diameter and forms a backing or rear support for the interposedcard, and a supporting extension, as specified.

2. A card rack, comprising one or more concentric coils of wire, aneccentric coil of larger diameter and formed by acontinuation of saidconcentric coils, and asupporting extension, as specified.

3. A card, sign or label rack, comprising one or more wire clampingcoils, an integral rear support or backing projecting above andconnecting the coils, and supporting extensions formed by theterminations of the coils, as specified.

4. In a card, sign or label rack, multiple coils of wire, anapproximately arclrshaped backing projecting above the coil and formedby bending up the outer extremity thereof, and the terminal shank of thearched backing, as specified.

5. In a card, sign or label rack, a fiat spiral clamping coil formedfrom a single length of wire, the backing or support formed by theapproximately arch-shaped termination of the coil and the downwardlybent extremity or shank of the backing, as specified.

6. In a card, sign or label rack, a flat spiral wire clamping coilhaving one extremity thereof arched and projecting above the coil properand terminating in a downwardly extending shank and the oppositeextremity bent radially and normally resting against the coil to form aspring finger, as specified.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WALTER G. DUOKETT.

Witnesses:

WM. H. WETZEL, CORNELIA L. PUMPHREY.

